However, many restaurant chains, such as Cracker Barrel, keep it as a menu staple.

At Jo's Bar, where burritos and burgers are menu staples, young Americans gather to celebrate being expatriates in a city that for them is cheap and chic.

At Gordon, a popular contemporary American restaurant in Chicago, artichoke fritters with bearnaise sauce have been a menu staple for 18 years, and they remain a best seller.

Before long, the chicken fajita became a trendy menu staple, while home gourmands began hunting for habaneros and cilantro.

Cold cucumber soup has been a menu staple for years, and with good reason.

The menu staples, called "dinner plates," are $5.50, $6 and $7.

Of the menu staples, the standout dish is brodetto alla vastese, Vasto's signature fish soup.

The result: Ligurian farinata, the menu staple in this very local restaurant that also hordes some excellent wines.

HALIBUT in Alaska is like beef in the lower 48, a menu staple.

Piñons were a menu staple of Native Americans.